I have replaced the motherboard and CPU, hard-drive, RAM, and re-installed the SuSe 12.1 operating system .. After tweaking the Linux OS, I battled to get the Node to work .. Was a 'permissions' issue with some of the Node files ...

After quite a few days of trying all sorts of configurations, I got the Node up and running without sound ...

I googled and found that there are issues with SuSe 12.1 and ALSA - I tried a few 'fixes' but nothing worked ..

I then used a USB 'soundcard' and configured that and now my Johannesburg Node is up and running 100% ...

The Johannesburg Node has been running for a few months and now suddenly the receiver apparently got hit by lightning ..

There was the usual daily thunderstorms but today there was a thunder crash right over my house (it was VERY loud!!) ... I just noticed that my PCR-1000 via Gloaltuners showed no signal strength on 'any' signal ... Strong FM broadcast station I can hear but nothing else - MW and SW are very 'quiet' ..

I m hoping its just the RF front-end semiconductor that has been fried .. I'll have to take the receiver off-line and take it apart and test ..

Sven, I get one thing right, then something else comes along to test me - *Sigh ....

I stripped the PCR-1000 down and there are no 'burn marks' anywhere, so I suspect it wasn't a direct lightning strike but an induced one ... So far, everything else appears to be OK in the house ... I've had this radio running 24/7 for years and years ....

I now must get my PCR-1000 software running to connect manually to the radio so I can check it out on my laptop (Windows-7 64kb) ... Thing is, my 'old' PCR-1000 software doesn'y seem to like Windows-7 64kb ........ And I'll be trying to use a RS-232 serial cable to USB ... (I've used RS-232/USB cables before on other PC's and other software with no problem) ..

At the moment I have other priorities so the PCR-1000 is a bit behind in getting a good proper look at - but I'll get there ................

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